re: Coolest thing you've ever done or seen at a sporting event

both of those are cool

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I was a last minute replacement jockey in the 1998 Kentucky derby. My only opportunity to race there. Will cherish that forever even though we finished middle of the pack.

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Damn that's cool.

So... how tall are you?

I went to a practice round during the PGA Championship at Hazeltine. Fred Funk's caddy went to get a sandwich while Fred's group was on the tee box. His caddy wasn't back when they started walking down the fairway. Fred asks this kid standing next to me if he wanted to caddy for him. The kid was about 10 years old and asked his dad if it was OK. The golf bag was almost dragging on the ground. Fred's caddy saw this and came running. Fred hollered to him and said, "You're too late, you've been replaced." Fred was a crowd favorite that whole week.

We went to Tampa for ST the year Griffey went to the Reds. We followed him from his car to his room to see what his room # was. We got back to our room and I prank called his room using quotes from Griffey's video game. He tells me, "kid, come to my room, I'll give you something if you stop calling."

So I get to his room and he invites me to get on the sticks for a game of KGjr Baseball! We go 5 innings, he says he's got to get to the park. He pops out the game, signs it, and hands it to me and sends me on his way. Then I hollered at him at the park the next day and he gave me a bat. Pretty cool

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So I get to his room and he invites me to get on the sticks for a game of KGjr Baseball! We go 5 innings, he says he's got to get to the park. He pops out the game, signs it, and hands it to me and sends me on his way. Then I hollered at him at the park the next day and he gave me a bat. Pretty cool

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That's awesome. Besides Chipper, Griffey is my all time favorite.

Got hammered with Anthony Kim at the PGA at Oakland Hills in 2008. Buddy was playing and we were partying at his rental house. Anyway, AK almost shoots an entire fifth of Petron and is folded over in the corner. An OT baller calls his bookie in Dallas and wants to know who AK is up against on the betting line on Saturday. Turns out it is Phil Micklelson. I think Micklelson was 140/100 favorite. Baller puts $50,000 on Mickelson. Bookie says you never bet golf, you know something I don't? Next day was not close, AK shot a bunch.

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Got hammered with Anthony Kim at the PGA at Oakland Hills in 2008.

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I have a few buddies that play golf here at KU. They said Gary Woodland came back and told them that Anthony Kim and DJ weren't out with injuries, but because they were having a little to much fun with the yeyo. Don't know how much truth their is to that. Also, they had a a nude picture floating around the team that was supposedly Holly Sonders. Woodland sent that to the group as well as one of his buddies on tour was apparently hitting that.

1)going into the astros locker room a couple years ago and had about an hour long conversation with todd helton after the game.

2)caught a foul ball at the CWS in the early 2000's hit by an lsu baseball player, i was only about 10, he wanted to buy it off me

3) watched shaq at the p-mac against the hornet...i mean pelicans after katrina, we were right off the court and he got t'd up by a woman ref in the preseason and got ejected. he was fricking with her so bad the entire game

4) after the lsu-rice super regional got to hear smoke laval call auggie gurido a old piece of shite

5) good friend of mine, her dad is an announcer for a MLB team and my family and i went to a game and he gave me a shoutout which was pretty sweet.

I went to the Saints-Jaguars game in 2003 with a buddy when the River City Relay occured. Despite the goof by John Carney on the extra point, that was the coolest thing I've ever seen at a football game. We kept thinking the play would get over turned because it looked like Donte Stallworth threw a forward lateral to Michael Lewis from where we were sitting.

At first I was pissed off that we had lost. Even if the Saints had won though, their playoff chances would have still been pretty slim I think. It was about an eight hour drive on the way home and by the time we were near the Crestview, Fl. exit, we were both laughing at how crazy that play was and how neat it was to see it in person. I'll probably never get that lucky again.

That's classic. Sounds like your buddy is quite a player if you're getting to hang out at all these sick events. I've had a few friends play major college golf and try the Hooters tour and Nationwide tour, but they haven't had much success. When we were younger we used to talk about how fun it would be to just cruise the tour if anyone ever broke out. I was gonna caddy and play as much as possible while he funded the entertainment. What a pipe dream that was.

For a pretty school story not occurring at a event, I met Shaq and saw Tiger in the same day at the Windermere Isleworth neighborhood in Orlando. My uncle ran lines for ATT and is a really cool guy. We show up at the gate, he flashes the Employee ID, and they let him right in. When we pull up to the front of Shaq's house he goes watch this. Rings the buzzer, tells him its Paulie, and the gate opens. Shaq comes out of his house and we shoot the shite with him for like 35 minutes in the garage from cribs. Coincidently I was wearing LSU stuff so we had a pretty good conversation.

Apparently my uncle met him at a Club in downtown Orlando during the early 90's and used to stop by here and there to go say hi. Shaq said he liked me uncle cause he was a 5'8" but not scared of anyone. All I could do was